War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.